Originally posted by lasanidine: I cannot remeber for sure but I think that Win 98 CD-ROM is not bootable.

Mine are, both the Win 98 FE and the Win 98 SE. Mine are both OEM disks made for custom computers (not name brands).But there are different versions of Win 98 CD's so they may not all be. It's a good idea to have a boot floppy handy just in case.

Yes the computer is relatively new but its just not right, there is so much wrong with it! I want to do this to see if it will work before I have to buy a new one!The main problem I have is that my floppy drive isn't working and you all keep mentioning my needing a floopy to boot up. None of the maintenance things I have tried work, it wont defrag and I cant do the disk clean up because the whole computer just seizes up oh and the scan disk bit doesnt work properly, you know when you turn your computer off not by going into the start menu and it does the check at the beginning, that doesn't work.Basically, it needs help!!

Have you checked to see if your computer can boot off your Windows CD?

If it can't, and you've checked your computer's BIOS to make sure it's set to boot off the CD instead of the hard drive, you may have to buy a new floppy drive. They don't usually cost too much and aren't that hard to install.

Oh, there is an option in scandisk (type of test).If this is set at "Thorough" it will take a LONGtime (its checking the surface for errors). Thismay cause you to believe that scandisk is notworking. If that is the case, click cancel, andlet the computer boot to the desktop. From thereyou can call up scandisk manually and reset thatoption to "standard".

Originally posted by Jen:The main problem I have is that my floppy drive isn't working and you all keep mentioning my needing a floopy to boot up.

If this is your biggest problem.........have you checked the ribbon cable to see that it is anchored at each end O.K.? Also the power wiring?

Why not just buy another floppy drive and install it? It's not really expensive and very easy to do. Re-formatting your harddrive isn't going to fix the floppy drive so why not start with the easiest thing and go from there?

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